James, Matt
Matt James studies the politics of reparation and transitional justice and also has expertise in the fields of Canadian politics, constitutionalism, and social movement studies. He is the author of Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics (University of British Columbia Press) and has published on reparation, memory, and political apology in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Citizenship Studies, Human Rights Review, and International Journal of Transitional Justice. He also produced for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada a major research report on truth commissions, victims, and perpetrators around the world.
Students under his supervision have received significant honours, including the Fulbright Scholarship and the SSHRC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. He is able to supervise students working on collective memory, transitional justice, reparations, political apologies, social movement politics, hatred and responses to hatred, and Canadian constitutionalism and citizenship.
Research Interests: truth commission reports, apologies, social accountability, community responses to acts of hate, and political critique of contemporary mainstream anti-hate discourses.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Colonialism Commemoration and Memorialization Historical Injustice and Trauma Law and Legal Issues Memory Politics Social Movements and Political Mobilization |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | mattjame@uvic.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. "The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma, and Assigning Responsibility with the TRC Report." Canadian Journal of Political Science 2021. Firstview publication date 07 June 2021. With Jordan-Stanger Ross, "Impermanent Apologies: On the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology," Human Rights Review 19 (2018): 289-311. "Changing the Subject: The TRC, its National Events, and the Displacement of Substantive Reconciliation in Canadian Media Representations." Journal of Canadian Studies 51:2 (2017): 362-397. "Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, the Impermanent Apologies Approach, and the Politics of Political Apologies," C4E Journal: Perspectives on Ethics 2017 C4EJ 13 (2017). "On Carnival and Context: A Response to Bridget Storrie." International Journal of Transitional Justice 9:3 (2015): 486-493. "Degrees of Freedom in Canada's Culture of Redress." Citizenship Studies 2014 (electronic version). "A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission," International Journal of Transitional Justice 2012; doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijs010. "Against Legitimacy," Les Ateliers de l'ethique/The Ethics Forum. 7:1 (2012): 112-118. With Michelle Bonner. "The Three R’s of Seeking Transitional Justice: Reparation, Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina," The International Indigenous Policy Journal 2:3 (2011), Article 3. |
